SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: string … is not a valid utf-8 string

Question

Hi I have a web service built using the Zend Framework. One of the methods is intended to send details about an order. I ran into some encoding issue. One of the values bein

Answer 1

I found out that in my case not the encoding of strings was the problem but that the file itself was not saved as UTF-8. Even explicit saving with UTF-8 encoding did not help.

For me it worked to insert a comment with an UTF-8 character like // Å